The Wachowski Brothers’ “Speed Racer” has gotten an official site (Thanks, Gopal!), and you can head over there now for goodies like video interviews, pictures of the cast and crew, and a detailed synopsis of the movie. Although I expected something with a little more pizzazz to be...

Here’s your “Speed Racer” movie update. Warner Brothers has released the official synopsis for the movie (via): Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is a natural behind the wheel. Born to race cars, Speed is aggressive, instinctive and, most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the...

The Wachowski Brothers have added another name to their cast — Scott Porter, one of the stars of NBC’s critically acclaimed but criminally underseen “Friday Night Lights”, the TV version of the football movie of the same name. Porter will play the younger version of Speed Racer’s...

You gotta love USA Today. All this time, I thought they were a high-falutin’ newspaper that only cared about national politics and international finance, but after the Dark Knight scoop a few days ago, and now this Speed Racer article, these guys have become must-reads for me. Who knew they were...

According to his management (which means it might not be true, or even happen), South Korean pop star and actor Rain (his stage name, his real name is Jung Ji-Hoon) will be joining the cast of the Wachowski Brothers’ live-action adaptation of “Speed Racer” (the brothers’ first...